2017 Speakers
Dr. Katherine Dooley
Dr. Anne Quinney
Josh Mabus
Rory Ledbetter
Patrick J Woodyard
Shannon Cohn
Dr. Susan R. Grayzel
Dr. Joe Campbell
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Dr. Katherine Dooley
Kate is from Poughkeepsie, NY where she attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in Physics in 2006 with minors in Mathematics and French. She earned her doctorate in Physics from the U. of Florida in 2011 for her contributions to improving the Initial LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. She then moved to Hannover, Germany for a position as a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational-wave Physics / Albert Einstein Institute where she integrated squeezed light technology to the GEO 600 gravitational-wave detector. After her work in Germany and prior to joining Ole Miss in 2015, Kate was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech.
Currently, Kate is active in experimental gravitational-wave research and in teaching physics for physics and engineering majors. Her research is focused on designing improvements to the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in collaboration with colleagues in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
After over 50 years of effort, scientists and engineers recently succeeded in the challenge to measure the infinitesimal changes in the separation between two mirrors caused by cataclysmic events in the distant universe. During its first observing run in fall 2015, the Advanced LIGO detectors witnessed the passing of gravitational waves created by the collisions of black holes over 1 billion light-years away. These first and second detections of gravitational waves bring to life a new instrument for astronomy, delivering news from the otherwise invisible affairs of the cosmos. I will review the history of the experiments that led to this breakthrough and show that in large-scale science, although we can still find heroes who opened up new venues, many individual researchers operate behind the scenes. Such a workforce will be all the more necessary for building the next generation of gravitational wave detectors around the world, which will be specialized to hear different tones of the sound spectrum from space.
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Dr. Anne Quinney
Imagine your favorite book. What if you never read it? Or if the ending were different from the one you know and love? How would it change your overall sense of the work? Or affect your feelings about the author? UM Professor of French Anne Quinney explores the subject of editorial censorship—how a book is subjected to censorship even before it gets published. She suggests ways for us to become reflective literary citizens by asking questions about what we read: Am I reading what the author wrote? Or how she or he understood it? Was a “dangerous” book suppressed and replaced with what we have in print along with a softer message? What is the effect of a mistranslation, however slight, on the overall meaning of the foreign work brought out into English? Learn the backstory in order to get the full story behind the books we love. BIO:
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Josh Mabus
Josh has used his varied experiences to bring a holistic approach to raising the creative bar in the region. Journalist, writer, designer, actor, director, videographer, builder, maker, doer — he uses strategy to focus all facets of marketing into winning results for clients. His advertising agency, Mabus Agency, has grown quickly since its formation at the start of a significant economic recession. An avid supporter of Mississippi’s startup culture, Josh is first in line to mentor our state’s entrepreneurs at any stage. You can always find Josh at a Startup Weekend, Innovate Mississippi’s New Venture Challenge or entrepreneurial competitions at our colleges and universities. Josh’s two part mission: to help people and to raise the creative bar manifests itself in many ways, but his core mantra remains the same: “Whatever you’re going to make, make a difference."
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Rory Ledbetter
Is silence and full breathing the key to eliminating negative self-talk? Do you think you could live for a day without speaking a single word? Professional artist and self-development coach Rory Ledbetter studies what happens mentally and physiologically when you release the desire to speak. Ledbetter explains why we should celebrate moments of deep breathing in silence and presents new techniques that can immediately calm your mind.
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Patrick J Woodyard
Patrick is the Co-Founder & CEO of Nisolo. Patrick graduated from the Croft Institute for International Studies and Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi, where he studied Global Economics & Business, Latin American Studies, and Spanish. His experience using business as a force for good has led him across the globe ranging from Kenya and Uganda to Argentina and Peru. While working for a microfinance firm in Trujillo, Peru, Patrick was introduced to the broken Peruvian footwear industry made up of over 100,000 shoemakers who possess remarkable talent yet lack access to consistent work, fair-wages, and brand access to established international markets. Having had extensive exposure to such potential juxtaposed with a lack of access in other developing countries, Patrick created Nisolo with the vision to push the fashion industry in a new direction by serving as one of the first fashion brands to deliver a superior yet ethically-produced product to consumers.
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Shannon Cohn
Do you know the most common, debilitating disease that most people have never heard of? Every year, countless women are forced to leave careers they love, abandon dreams of having children, watch their personal relationships suffer and live in unspeakable pain. Endometriosis: It affects an estimated 176 million girls & women, yet takes an average of 10 years & 8 doctors to diagnose. Many doctors and even loved ones tell them to toughen up, live with the pain or it's all in their heads. Filmmaker and activist Shannon Cohn explores this troubling phenomenon & why historically women's pain hasn't been taken seriously. She asks: What does the widespread prevalence of this misunderstood, devastating disease say about the world we live in & what do we all risk by ignoring the voices of so many women?
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Dr. Susan R. Grayzel
By now, it feels like there can’t be anyone who hasn’t seen the sign with its white letters on the sharp red background: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” Even more likely, we’ve seen what feel like infinite variations: “keep calm and smile on;” “keep calm and study hard;” “keep calm and rock on;” or even “sod calm and get angry.” But behind the popular resurgence of this 1939 British wartime slogan is an important story about how the age of air power shifted the relationship of individuals and their states in ways with which we are still grappling. A little over a one hundred years ago, the First World War ushered in air raids—attacks on civilian spaces and bodies that made securing borders alone obsolete. In Britain, this meant improvising a response to keep its population as safe as possible and creating what became civil defense. What role would non-combatants have in the wars after 1918? What could states ask of their entire populations—from children to the elderly and including men and women of all walks of life? What does it mean that they asked them to “keep calm and carry on?” And why does this development still matter?
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Dr. Joe Campbell
If a person is drowning would you try to save them?
If a person begins choking next to you at a restaurant, would you try to save their life with a Heimlich maneuver? Dr. Campbell discusses the new use of the old anesthesia drug Ketamine that has been shown to decrease suicidal tendencies in severely depressed patients. He explains the use of this drug to provide a pharmaceutical lifeboat that may other treatment modalities time to take effect.
Dr. Katherine Dooley
Dr. Anne Quinney
Josh Mabus
Rory Ledbetter
Patrick J Woodyard
Shannon Cohn
Dr. Susan R. Grayzel
Dr. Joe Campbell
Dr. Katherine Dooley
Kate is from Poughkeepsie, NY where she attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in Physics in 2006 with minors in Mathematics and French. She earned her doctorate in Physics from the U. of Florida in 2011 for her contributions to improving the Initial LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. She then moved to Hannover, Germany for a position as a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational-wave Physics / Albert Einstein Institute where she integrated squeezed light technology to the GEO 600 gravitational-wave detector. After her work in Germany and prior to joining Ole Miss in 2015, Kate was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech.
Currently, Kate is active in experimental gravitational-wave research and in teaching physics for physics and engineering majors. Her research is focused on designing improvements to the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in collaboration with colleagues in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
After over 50 years of effort, scientists and engineers recently succeeded in the challenge to measure the infinitesimal changes in the separation between two mirrors caused by cataclysmic events in the distant universe. During its first observing run in fall 2015, the Advanced LIGO detectors witnessed the passing of gravitational waves created by the collisions of black holes over 1 billion light-years away. These first and second detections of gravitational waves bring to life a new instrument for astronomy, delivering news from the otherwise invisible affairs of the cosmos. I will review the history of the experiments that led to this breakthrough and show that in large-scale science, although we can still find heroes who opened up new venues, many individual researchers operate behind the scenes. Such a workforce will be all the more necessary for building the next generation of gravitational wave detectors around the world, which will be specialized to hear different tones of the sound spectrum from space.
Dr. Anne Quinney
Imagine your favorite book. What if you never read it? Or if the ending were different from the one you know and love? How would it change your overall sense of the work? Or affect your feelings about the author? UM Professor of French Anne Quinney explores the subject of editorial censorship—how a book is subjected to censorship even before it gets published. She suggests ways for us to become reflective literary citizens by asking questions about what we read: Am I reading what the author wrote? Or how she or he understood it? Was a “dangerous” book suppressed and replaced with what we have in print along with a softer message? What is the effect of a mistranslation, however slight, on the overall meaning of the foreign work brought out into English? Learn the backstory in order to get the full story behind the books we love. BIO:
Josh Mabus
Josh has used his varied experiences to bring a holistic approach to raising the creative bar in the region. Journalist, writer, designer, actor, director, videographer, builder, maker, doer — he uses strategy to focus all facets of marketing into winning results for clients. His advertising agency, Mabus Agency, has grown quickly since its formation at the start of a significant economic recession. An avid supporter of Mississippi’s startup culture, Josh is first in line to mentor our state’s entrepreneurs at any stage. You can always find Josh at a Startup Weekend, Innovate Mississippi’s New Venture Challenge or entrepreneurial competitions at our colleges and universities. Josh’s two part mission: to help people and to raise the creative bar manifests itself in many ways, but his core mantra remains the same: “Whatever you’re going to make, make a difference."
Rory Ledbetter
Is silence and full breathing the key to eliminating negative self-talk? Do you think you could live for a day without speaking a single word? Professional artist and self-development coach Rory Ledbetter studies what happens mentally and physiologically when you release the desire to speak. Ledbetter explains why we should celebrate moments of deep breathing in silence and presents new techniques that can immediately calm your mind.
Patrick J Woodyard
Patrick is the Co-Founder & CEO of Nisolo. Patrick graduated from the Croft Institute for International Studies and Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi, where he studied Global Economics & Business, Latin American Studies, and Spanish. His experience using business as a force for good has led him across the globe ranging from Kenya and Uganda to Argentina and Peru. While working for a microfinance firm in Trujillo, Peru, Patrick was introduced to the broken Peruvian footwear industry made up of over 100,000 shoemakers who possess remarkable talent yet lack access to consistent work, fair-wages, and brand access to established international markets. Having had extensive exposure to such potential juxtaposed with a lack of access in other developing countries, Patrick created Nisolo with the vision to push the fashion industry in a new direction by serving as one of the first fashion brands to deliver a superior yet ethically-produced product to consumers.
Shannon Cohn
Do you know the most common, debilitating disease that most people have never heard of? Every year, countless women are forced to leave careers they love, abandon dreams of having children, watch their personal relationships suffer and live in unspeakable pain. Endometriosis: It affects an estimated 176 million girls & women, yet takes an average of 10 years & 8 doctors to diagnose. Many doctors and even loved ones tell them to toughen up, live with the pain or it's all in their heads. Filmmaker and activist Shannon Cohn explores this troubling phenomenon & why historically women's pain hasn't been taken seriously. She asks: What does the widespread prevalence of this misunderstood, devastating disease say about the world we live in & what do we all risk by ignoring the voices of so many women?
Dr. Susan R. Grayzel
By now, it feels like there can’t be anyone who hasn’t seen the sign with its white letters on the sharp red background: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” Even more likely, we’ve seen what feel like infinite variations: “keep calm and smile on;” “keep calm and study hard;” “keep calm and rock on;” or even “sod calm and get angry.” But behind the popular resurgence of this 1939 British wartime slogan is an important story about how the age of air power shifted the relationship of individuals and their states in ways with which we are still grappling. A little over a one hundred years ago, the First World War ushered in air raids—attacks on civilian spaces and bodies that made securing borders alone obsolete. In Britain, this meant improvising a response to keep its population as safe as possible and creating what became civil defense. What role would non-combatants have in the wars after 1918? What could states ask of their entire populations—from children to the elderly and including men and women of all walks of life? What does it mean that they asked them to “keep calm and carry on?” And why does this development still matter?
Dr. Joe Campbell
If a person is drowning would you try to save them?
If a person begins choking next to you at a restaurant, would you try to save their life with a Heimlich maneuver? Dr. Campbell discusses the new use of the old anesthesia drug Ketamine that has been shown to decrease suicidal tendencies in severely depressed patients. He explains the use of this drug to provide a pharmaceutical lifeboat that may other treatment modalities time to take effect.
2017 Team
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